Frederick Lenz Quotes About Nothingness

• None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Acceptance, Self

• Everything that you are or conceive of yourself as being is just an idea. It's an illusion. It's a hallucination.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ideas, Hallucinations, Illusion

• This is simple meditation, nothingness and everythingness, the color and the form, death and the void, the end and the beginning, a beginningless end with an endless beginning, Pretty clever if you ask me.

  Frederick Lenz

  Clever, Buddhism, Simple

• You are fighting against nothingness all the time by creating a series of shields that you call personality, life history, feelings, ideas, and ways of seeing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fighting, Creating, Ideas

• Nothing is or is not unless you happen to think it so. That's what Shakespeare said, and he knew.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Said, Happens

• There is no self. There is nobody home. No forwarding address, no zip code. Address unknown.

  Frederick Lenz

  Home, Self, Addresses

• So in the world of Enlightenment, things are just things, except they're not things. We're in nirvana. There is no debating team.

  Frederick Lenz

  Team, Enlightenment, World

• The world is empty - all of the people and places, the earth, the seas, mountains, deserts, forests and cities, and the beings that inhabit them, are unchangeable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Cities, Sea, People

• All incarnations are lived at once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're in the vortex of time and space, when your consciousness is fixated in a body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Science, Space, Doe

• The way of nothingness is the way of Zen. It is just a term. The contemplation of nothingness or everythingness is where everything starts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Way, Contemplation, Introduction

• When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Baggage, Claims, Existence

• We label things through value systems that we have developed. But nothing is or is not unless we feel it is that way. We give ground to reality by creating it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Creating, Giving

• Everything has a nothingness. On the other side of physical reality, there is another world, and in that world, everything is something else.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, World

• We are made up of nothing. There is no self. We are whatever we decide we are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Made, Nothingness

• We can only conceive of changing the self-reflection in response to our concept of self-reflection, which is predicated on our concept of self, which is a self-reflection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reflection, Self, Response

• Qualityless simply means there is no way to discuss it. There is no way to pin it down. It could be anything at any given moment since infinity is not bound even by itself, nor the words that human beings choose to try and talk around it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Trying, Infinity

• Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study.

  Frederick Lenz

  Zips, Study, Lost

• Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Life Is, Awareness

• The more perfectly you can refine the process of Frisbee, the tighter your energy is and the more you become one with the nothingness of the Frisbee, the nothingness of the play.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Play

• Nirvana is a very exclusive club - no one is in it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Clubs, Exclusive, Nothingness

• There is no such thing as reality. Reality is what you make it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Nothingness

• There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ideas, Evil, Perfection

• Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Way, Good Times, Introduction

• When you laugh at the world, the world dissolves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Laughing

• When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and you are not you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Health, Buddhism, Mind

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